[okfn-labs] Publicbodies.org and popolo

Thu May 30 01:06:57 UTC 2013

I'm also curious what you guys think about using something like the Open
Civic Data identifiers to identify the jurisdictions of public bodies -
https://github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids

I've started to incorporate the OCD IDs into the DemocracyMap API (though
just limited to the United States for now) - http://api.democracymap.org

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> I've booted an issue here: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/29
>
> Ross (and others): would be great to have input here esp re popolo spec
> part!
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> Rufus
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> On 20 May 2013 14:58, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Great idea Ross. can you raise an issue and exact CSV header-set we would
>> want ...
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
>> On 14 May 2013 13:55, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Would it make sense for publicbodies.org to follow the popolo spec at
>>> http://popoloproject.com/data.html ? I know MySoc are working on an
>>> implementation of it, but it would be nice to have publicbodies be a global
>>> instance.
>>>
>>> Ross
>>>
>>>
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